Movie Retrospectives

On Friday, December 21, 2007, beloved and already legendary Director Tim Burton (Beetlejuice 1988, Corpse Bride 2005) delivered his whimsical, musical, magical spin on a classic of the modern stage, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, to U.S. theatre audiences. With an all-star...

Take your seats. No talking. Turn down the house lights. Raise the Curtain! This will be a night at the Opera you'll never forget! Why? Because 30 years ago, on December 19th of 1987, Dario Argento's Opera made it way to theaters in Italy.Not released in...

"When single shines the triple sun, what was sundered and undone
shall be whole - the two made one, by Gelfling hand or else by none."
On Friday, December 17, 1982, The Dark Crystal hit theaters across the U.S., introducing the world to a plethora of...

Twenty years ago, Wes Craven (The Last House on the Left 1972, A Nightmare on Elm Street 1984) and Kevin Williamson (Cursed 2005 The Vampire Diaries series) came together yet again to create a new film in the Scream series. Released on December 12th, 1997,...

Break out the party hats, ladies and gentlemen, the banners, cake, and candles, too: for it is time to celebrate the 20th anniversary for the movie Alien: Resurrection!——rrrrrrrrippp. This is where the needle on the record dramatically skips, when all the partygoers freeze in place,...

In the realm of Horror cinema, there are plenty of films based around Christmas, obviously Halloween, but how about Thanksgiving? You can probably count on one hand how many Horror flicks are Turkey Day themed. You may want to hide that hand though at threat...

If you were to read the names of the cast and production staff of Planes, Trains and Automobiles it would be hard to come away with the idea that the end product was going to be anything less than a comedy classic. Written, Produced, and...

In the 2000s, the Vampire genre was a mixed bag. You had the poorly done Dracula 2000 at the beginning of the century, the more action-based Blade series which ran through 2004, the cinematic disaster of Van Helsing in 2004, and the glossy Twilight of...

Arguably one of the strongest years ever in Hollywood filmmaking was 1982. Science fiction hits like E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan stood with then-underrated films like The Thing and Blade Runner. Cult Horror favorites like Basket Case and Creepshow were released, while Jason Voorhees...

Back in 1978, John Carpenter introduced the world to a new face of Horror with the masked boogeyman Michael Myers in his legendary film Halloween. From there, Michael Myers was killed in a fiery explosion in 1981's Halloween II. When it was announced that there would be...